How to Measure the Efficiency of Agricultural Cooperatives in Developing Countries
Author : Johannes Kuhn
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Page : 165 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Johannes Kuhn
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Page : 165 pages
File Size : 18,61 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : J. Kuhn
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Page : 53 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Johannes Kuhn
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
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Author : Eberhard Dülfer
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Basic considerations; Efficiency with respect to social and economic development targets; Motivational and organizacional aspects of cooperative efficiency; Efficiency of different patterns of cooperative farming in developing regions; Efficiency of different of service and credit cooperatives; Imperatives for management and financing of cooperative enterprises; Prerequisites for cooperative efficiency within agricultural development projects; Vocational training and education required for members and personnel of cooperatives in developing countries.
Author : D. Eberhard
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 1987
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Page : 165 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 1970
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
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Author : Kurt R. Anschel
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
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Compilation of conference papers presented at a meeting on marketing aspects of rural cooperatives in developing countries - covers the cooperative system, marketing cooperatives, rural development, etc. Conference held in lexington 1967 April 26 to 30.
Author : United States Agriculture
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2012-04-28
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ISBN : 9781475275155
The task of measuring the financial performance of cooperatives is made problematic by the attributes of the cooperative form of business. Most of the commonly used financial measures give an incomplete picture of a cooperative's performance. However, the extra value approach used in this report enables a cooperative's use of member-supplied funds to be fully measured-whether member capital is earning more, or less, than it could in alternative investments. The value a cooperative generates over and above its expenses, including an opportunity cost for its equity capital, is termed "extra value." A positive extra value indicates that a cooperative has created value by its operations, while a negative extra value means that a cooperative has actually diminished the value of members' investment. Extra value is measured by subtracting an interest charge on equity capital from net savings. Three different interest rates are used for the charge on equity. The December average British Banker's Association's London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (Libor) plus 200 basis points provides the basic reference rate. This Libor + 2 "basic" rate represents the commonly held opinion that banks in the United States will generally extend loans to a firm with a better-than-average credit rating, at an interest rate of about 200 basis points above the Libor. Extra value was also calculated at two higher rates, the basic rate plus 5 percentage points and the basic rate plus 10 percentage points, to reflect a range of risk premiums because investors consider equity investment riskier than debt. For comparisons over time and among different types of cooperatives, extra value is expressed as a percentage of operating capital. This common-sized index is thus scale- and operating mode-neutral. Extra value was calculated for 65 cooperatives that had been on USDA's top 100 cooperatives (based on revenue) list for at least 4 years in each of two 5-year time periods-1992 through 1996 and 2000 through 2004. Looking at these two time periods allows for an examination of how cooperative performance progressed over time. Additionally, averaging over multiple years should have helped minimize the impact of extraordinary factors on results.
Author : Constantin Zopounidis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319066358
This book focuses on the use of farm level, micro- and macro-data of cooperative systems and networks in developing new robust, reliable and coherent modeling tools for agricultural and environmental policy analysis. The efficacy of public intervention on agriculture is largely determined by the existence of reliable information on the effects of policy options and market developments on farmers' production decisions and in particular, on key issues such as levels of agricultural and non-agricultural output, land use and incomes, use of natural resources, sustainable-centric management, structural change and the viability of family farms. Over the last years, several methods and analytical tools have been developed for policy analysis using various sets of data. Such methods have been based on integrated approaches in an effort to investigate the above key issues and have thus attempted to offer a powerful environment for decision making, particularly in an era of radical change for both agriculture and the wider economy.